BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Singapore BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+08 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261012T083847Z - 97228@fwa DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20141017T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20141017T080000 CREATED:20261012T083846Z DESCRIPTION:Senior Executives Lunch\nThe Financial Women's Association of Si ngapore (FWAS) held its Senior Executive's Lunch for the fourth consecutiv e year on 17 October 2014\, kindly sponsored by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in their premise at One George Street. It was a cozy and warm setup with guests mingling and networking with one another during lunch before the talk started. Peter Akwaboah\, Managing Director & COO of APAC RBS\, k icked off the event by speaking about the Bank's commitment in delivering diversity& inclusion programmes. He also shared challenges that happened i n his career and how resilience is key to moving ahead in life and career. Low Chin Loo\, the president of FWAS\, followed by welcoming everyone to the event and highlighted that 40 organisations were represented in the ev ent\, with many new faces\, a fabulous thing to engage senior members of t he financial services community (both men and women) to understand\, learn and bring back to their workplaces the importance of diversity & inclusio n and a forward-thinking environment for women to excel and be happy worki ng in. She also introduced our keynote speaker\, James Eyring\, COO of Org anisation Solutions. He was addressing the concerns that although business es in Asia focus their diversity efforts on moving women onto increasingly high levels of management positions\, does it yield results and what area s should organisations concentrate on? The topic of the day was aptly name d "Women on Top: Investing in the Right Initiatives." James started his pr esentation by acknowledging that companies have made great strides in movi ng women into management and top management roles\, showing some data on t his from companies in Asia. In spite of this\, a lot more needs to be done for women to reach parity with men in the corporate world. By research es timates\, it may take up to 450 years for women to be at parity to men in senior executive [...] DTSTAMP:20261012T083847Z LOCATION:Financial Women's Association (Singapore)\, 111 North Bridge Road\ ,\, #21-01 Peninsula Plaza\,\, Singapore 179098\, Singapore SUMMARY:Senior Executives Lunch END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR